Is twcenter down (again again)?

[F.C is the bees knees]

don't you dare lc.

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CHRIST. Still down. I beginning to wonder if CA bought the site and left the guy who does their AI programming to run it

They're changing the hosting server, so don't worry, it just takes a while.

[ROFLMAO]

They're changing the hosting server.

How do you know? You also claimed to be Admin, so I dunno what to believe.

[Chloe]

How do you know? You also claimed to be Admin, so I dunno what to believe.

GED said that he would fix it, and I have faith in him and Sim, they are great admins.

[ROFLMAO]

Where did GED says this?

[twking]

if twcenter is back online tommorow i WILL hurt someone!

[ROFLMAO]

if twcenter is back online tommorow i WILL hurt someone!

Why? Would you prefer it offline tomorrow?

[twking]

i was ment to say offline. that was emmbarising...

[JaM]

personally i would preffer if somebody would have a decency to let us know site will be down - when it was down last time, i was searching for any official word about it,but didnt found anything.... such a things should be anounced....

its not fair to TWC members

[Mitsotakis]

Nice thread.

[Aradan]

The server was not *scheduled* to go down, there was a technical issue; our technicians are working on it as we speak.

And maybe TWC members should stop spamming this thread so badly, lest we find it locked and barred soon.

[ROFLMAO]

The server was not *scheduled* to go down, there was a technical issue; our technicians are working on it as we speak.

They're changing the hosting server, so don't worry, it just takes a while.

Code Knight lied AGIN! ;D

[Andronicus of Macedon]

I saw that typo Aradan :P

[Monk]

And maybe TWC members should stop spamming this thread so badly, lest we find it locked and barred soon.

There's already been a wave of deletion. The only reason this thread still stands is because I like you TWCers and I want you all to have a place to vent, hang out, and socialize while your site is on the fritz. I think you would do the same if our positions were reversed.

If that hospitality is abused, however, this and every other "is the twc down again?" thread from here on will be viewed as spam and deleted. And I really don't wanna go down that road.

[Thermal]

if twcenter is back online tommorow i WILL hurt someone!

I guess it's to read my amazing shogun AAR naturally, in which you can visit the sword dojo to see it

wait, you dont want it to be online!?

[-Finn-]

They have changed to the new server, but obviously, all the kinks have not been ironed out yet.

[Freddie]

CHRIST. Still down. I beginning to wonder if CA bought the site and left the guy who does their AI programming to run it

Don't be to hard on CA apparently (well according the PC Gamer UK) the AI in Empire is and I quote 'A bastard on hard difficulty settings'.

Good to see this place has Comic Sans MS and Green. Looks like the Helios will be delayed for this month. BTW Hi to all TWC refuagees I just hope the .org fanboys don't mind us invading your space.

[Andronicus of Macedon]

Don't be to hard on CA apparently (well according the PC Gamer UK) the AI in Empire is and I quote 'A bastard on hard difficulty settings'.

Good to see this place has Comic Sans MS and Green. Looks like the Helios will be delayed for this month. BTW Hi to all TWC refuagees I just hope the .org fanboys don't mind us invading your space.

The Eagle Standard will be out on time...
As usual....

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Here's a social group for TWC'ers to hang out while we are waiting for the website to come back up: https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/group.php?groupid=65

Please join and discuss there.

[Freddie]

Here's a social group for TWC'ers to hang out while we are waiting for the website to come back up: https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/group.php?groupid=65

Please join and discuss there.

So the TWC members are being herded off from the rest of the flock.

[ROFLMAO]

Please join and discuss there.

I share Freddie's sentiments.

[JaM]

thanks for explanation Aradan.

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So the TWC members are being herded off from the rest of the flock.

Just to help out the org, afterall we don't want to spam up our nice hosts threads.

[eddy_purpus]

The server was not *scheduled* to go down, there was a technical issue; our technicians are working on it as we speak.

And maybe TWC members should stop spamming this thread so badly, lest we find it locked and barred soon.

Youre No Moderator over here at the org ,
youre just one of us muahahahhahahaaahhaha




:surprise:

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Please refrain from any further spamming and go to this group:

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/group.php?groupid=65

[Quintus.JC]

Please refrain from swearing at the Org.

Thank you

[GrnEyedDvl]

We actually have at least two issues here at once. Maybe more. Believe me this is more irritating for myself and Sim than it is for anyone else, as neither one of us foresaw these kinds of problems.


First, there seems to be an issue with kswapd and the Linux kernel. We are using Ubuntu and I can find numerous threads on this in their forums. Sim disabled the swap files a few days ago as trying to kill the process doesnt work, and performing a normal reboot locks up the entire OS requiring a hard reboot. I think he later renabled the swap files, but I havent asked him to be sure.

We also had a problem with usbcore locking up, which hopefully was fixed by disabling the USB ports via BIOS and blacklisting the processes from even starting in the first place. Friday afternoon/evening I went through all the BIOS options and disabled all the hardware we do not use. This includes serial/com/USB/second NIC, etc. After several reboots to make sure the system would come back up it seemed to be running fine. I checked it early Saturday morning and it was up and running with what I considered to be a normal load average.

I do not know what took the server down this time, it would not respond to a login shell, and going to the server and performing a hard boot doesnt work either. Currently I cannot even log into the machine even when standing at it. Something got a bit hosed up. Early tomorrow morning I will be going back and trying to boot to a live CD and figure out what happened. Worst case is I reinstall on the OS partition and reconfigure. The data is stored on a separate partition and should be intact.


The second problem actually is beyond our control. Sim ran a network map on our IP address and its showing some stuff it shouldnt show. Particularly there are Micrsoft NetBIOS and SQL ports responding, and we are not using Microsoft. So it seems to both of us that somehow our IP is not pointing at our machine. I will be talking to our host about that in the morning as well. I am too damn tired to go back there tonight.

The host actually has a core router replacement scheduled for March 2nd. I do not know the details on that other than they expect that there might be some network speed issues for 30-45 minutes while that is being replaced. I was notified of this when I installed the server. Its possible that the router they are replacing was already having some issues and they have gotten worse, I will get more details from their network engineer tomorrow.

personally i would preffer if somebody would have a decency to let us know site will be down - when it was down last time, i was searching for any official word about it,but didnt found anything.... such a things should be anounced....

its not fair to TWC members

The downtime Friday evening WAS announced in the Q & S. That was the last scheduled downtime. The current downtime was NOT scheduled, and is actually driving me nuts.

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GED I program linux (as you've seen in my "Linux Thread") would you like some help?

[GrnEyedDvl]

Yeah sure.

Tell me why the server boots, shows a login prompt, then a black screen when you go to login.

[Code]

Yeah sure.

Tell me why the server boots, shows a login prompt, then a black screen when you go to login.

lol that's not much to work off of, but I don't mean to offend you, I was just offering a helping hand.